Virtium Assigned Patent

Virtium Technology, Inc., Rancho Santa Margarita, CA,, has been assigned a patent (8,918,583), developed by Hoang Pho, Foothill Ranch, CA, and Chen Jian, Irvine, CA, for a “adapting behavior of solid-state drive using real usage model.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An embodiment is a technique to adapt behavior of a solid-state drive, SSD, to extend lifespan of the SSD. Real environmental information is received from an environmental processor. The real environmental information corresponds to an environment of the SSD. A behavior model is selected based on a real environmental model and an internal data usage model. If a new behavior model is selected, the environmental processor is informed about the new behavior model. The environmental processor sends control commands to a power management module to apply new power policy to the SSD. Information on the new behavior model is made available for query. If current behavior model is selected, the current behavior model is maintained.“

The patent application was filed on December 20, 2012 (13/722,845)